Monday, 9 May 2016

So, what the f**k is a ‘cuck’?

Every now and then a word you’ve never heard begins to become a thing. Galt knows why.

One word you may have heard, emanating from the more fetid ends of the blogosphere, is “cuck.” Indeed, it rears its head here and elsewhere in blog comments from braindead folk who find words of more than one syllable too difficult.

No, readers, I didn’t know either what its intended to connote. So I did what I usually do when the kids are talking and headed to the Urban Dictionary,

short verb form for cuckold, to make your spouse a cuckold. [A word deriving from the cuckoo bird, that invades other’s nests.]

So that’s weird. Not much there to do with political (or even polite) debate

So I dug further. Some fetid fools who can manage more than one syllable use what apparently is the complete word: “cuckservative.” Best explanation of meaning and origin, according to reddit [and Wikipedia]:

A "cuckservative" is, according to your far-right Internet nerds (like those on SlurTown) a white anglo-saxon Republican [or conservative] who respects other ethnicities and cultures. [The term originated on websites such as 4chan, the right-wing message board My Posting Career,the political and social blog The Right Stuff, and other sites in the alt-right movement.. A few months ago the term left /pol/ when a Twitter user started using it to make fun of conservatives who weren't anti-gay or pro-white enough. [When one Republican calls another a "cuckservative" they are saying that person is weak (and un-manly) about their conviction to conservative principles.] The word kinda exploded this month, and it's been applied to pretty much all of the Republican presidential candidates here in the U.S. Here's a nice Daily Caller article about it [which concludes “it is a slur against Christian voters coined by white-supremacists.”]TL;DR: A "cuckservative" is a white Republican [or conservative] who doesn't hate other ethnicities, cultures, or sexualities.

The funny thing to me is that conservatives are using it to try insulting libertarians and atheists. Who are neither conservative nor Christian. (Differences that undoubtedly escape the fetid fools.)

The really funny thing here? This insult is most frequently flung around by the self-styled alt-right Trumpeters their hero’s campaign has flushed out of the sewers, mosty in their self-appointed role as blog trolls. Yet the cuckoo is famous for invading someone else’s nest and shitting all over it. Which is precisely what these blog trolls do all day themselves.

Maybe that’s why they’re so partial to the term.

Here’s Kristin Hersh:

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